Do medical residents with rural upbringing show less decline in empathy during training? A report from a rural family medicine residency

Innovation in rural family medicine training: the Mountain Area Health Education Center's rural-track residency program.

Duration of rural training during residency: rural family physicians prefer 6 months.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether rural family physicians thought they had received enough months of rural exposure during family medicine residency, how many months of rural exposure those who were satisfied with their training had had, and how many months of rural exposure those who were not satisfied with their training wanted. DESIGN Mailed survey. SETTING Rural Canada. PARTICIPANTS Rura...

Rural family medicine training in Canada.

OBJECTIVE To examine the status of postgraduate family medicine training that occurs in rural family practice settings in Canada and to identify problems and how they are addressed. DESIGN A retrospective questionnaire sent to all 18 Canadian family medicine training programs followed by a focus group discussion of results. SETTING Canadian university family medicine training programs. PA...

Family Medicine Spokane Rural Training Track: 24 years of rural-based graduate medical education.

Twenty percent of the US population lives in rural communities, but only about 9% of the nation's physicians practice in those communities. There is little doubt that the more highly specialized physicians are, the less likely they are to practice or settle in rural areas. There is clearly a population threshold below which it is not feasible for specialist (in contrast to generalist) physician...

Interest in rural medicine among osteopathic residents and medical students.

INTRODUCTION This study examines US osteopathic residents' and medical students' attitudes and willingness to practice in rural medicine. The multiple aims of this study were to determine: (1) if there are any significant differences in interest in rural medicine among various levels of training; (2) the relative age, gender, and race of those who are intending to pursue a career in rural healt...